Record ID: CORN-C64F53
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (c.1247-1272), Class IIa (c.1248), moneyer missing, mint Northampton, North 985, Spink 1361
Created on: Monday 19th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6426F6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Trajan (AD 98-117), P M TRP (COS VIPP) S P Q R , FORT RED (in ex), mint of Rome, issued c.AD 114-117
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-647193
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped brooch, with red enamel still intact in the circular settings on the bow of the brooch. The three settings are surrounded by raised and moulded diamond shaped frames, lined up in a vertical row, and defined by raised ridges either side of each point. The wings have two linear parallel incisions at each end. The hinge and pin (37 mm long) survive in their entirety, but the foot of the brooch and the catchplate are missing. Hattatt (2000) illustrates similar examples on page 303, Fig.162, Nos.908, 386 and 28, which are dated from the 1st to the 2nd cen…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-BCB08D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman nummus (c.AD 300-400) with laureate bust with small head and angled hair (so possibly Diocletian c.AD 300-305) facing right on the obverse and possibly a standing figure on the reverse but the coin is too worn and corroded to make out any details and the legends are missing.
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-22E4F8
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base fragment of a large cast copper alloy bell which has broken along the slit between two circular holes, producing a 'dumbbell' shape in plan, with half of one of those holes still extant. Above the slit is an incised linear border and part of the semi-circular 'sun', around the maker's initial 'R' with an annulet on either side, with linear rays emanating from it, decorating part of this half of the sphere. Each ray consists of two or three parallel incised lines, which may have curved into a rounded terminal, but these are now missing. There would have been a metal ball clapper w…
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: CORN-292154
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (AD 161-180), Reece period 8, TR P XVIII IMP II COS III S C reverse type (c.AD 163-164) depicting Minerva helmeted, draped, standing front, head left, holding vertical branch in right hand and resting left hand on shield with vertical spear resting on left arm, mint of Rome. Cf. BMC IV, p.557, pl.75, fig.11 (reverse only), no.1079.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-2930D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy single-loop rectangular buckle frame with moulded outer edge. What remains of the frame has a lozenge-shaped moulding with an incised border following the edge, next to an oval section that has two raised annulets above three oval recesses within it, followed by a square moulding with an incised square border at the corner of the frame. At right angles to this square is another ovate moulding with two raised annulets. The rest of the frame and the pin are missing but there is iron corrosion product on the back of the lozenge-shaped moulding which might …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2016
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2016
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Record ID: CORN-E873CD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stater of South Western uninscribed type minted by the Durotriges of Dorset and Somerset in the first century AD. British Museum Catalogue Type: 2810; ABC 2175; Van Arsdell Type: 1290-1, which is dated from 30 BC to AD 10, but current thinking now dates them from the first half of the 1st century AD. The style of these coins derive originally from Gallo-Belgic gold staters which were copying Greek gold staters in circulation at the time, with the head of Apollo on the obverse, and a horse and chariot on the reverse. The evolution of this coin's design is: Gallo-Belg…
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-44160E
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy finger ring, probably Roman in date, consisting of a flat strip of metal bent into a penannular ring with both terminals narrowing to a point and overlapping slightly. The pointed ends suggest this could have been used as an earring, but they may also simply be narrowed to fit together when worn on the finger and penannular to allow for expansion. The ring may also been made from a broken fragment of a bracelet which are often penannular in the Roman period. The outer face of the hoop is decorated with three horizontal concentric grooves which converge towards the ends …
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 17th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-69EC61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver long cross penny of Edward I (1272-1307), Class 4a (1282-1283), London mint. The crown is trifoliate, which places it in Classes 1-9. The obverse inscription is +EDW R'ANGL'DNS hYB, which eliminates Class 1a-c, as the contracted form EDW R began with Class 1d. The face is wide with long hair and the drapery at the neck is composed of two shallow wedges. The ornaments between the fleurs are spearheads, and there is a short beaded line above the forehead below the band of the crown. The S in CIVITAS is egg-waisted and there are large, comma-shaped contraction marks which suggests…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Saturday 8th December 2018
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Record ID: CORN-6D64E7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut farthing of a voided long cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Long cross coinage (1247-1272), Class III (1248-1250) from the position under the chin of the letters VS R from the legend hENRICVS REX and no hand or sceptre on the obverse; mint of London from the letters N LV on the reverse, which are part of the inscription ON LVND. This cut farthing was found in the same hole as a Scottish cut farthing of similar date recorded in CORN-6CD4C4.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Sunday 9th December 2018
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Record ID: CORN-FCC4CE
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cut farthing of a short cross penny of John (1199-1216), Class Vb1 (1205) with flat-topped 'R', moneyer Ilger, London mint, Mass 1408.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
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Record ID: CORN-A88D0D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver siliqua of the Emperor Arcadius (AD 383-408), Reece period 21, minted between spring AD 393 and September AD 394 at Milan, VIRTVS ROMANORVM reverse type depicting Roma seated left on a cuirass holding Victory on a globe in the right hand and an inverted spear in the left. The reverse mint mark is MDPS for Mediolanum or modern-day Milan. Cf. RIC IX, p.83, pl.VI, fig.13, no.32(b)
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 22nd April 2018
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Record ID: CORN-4C1376
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver cut half of a short cross penny of Henry III (1216-1272), Class 6c3 (c.1217), moneyer Abel, mint London. Cf. Mass (2001) pl.68, no.1838
Created on: Wednesday 4th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3723A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy openwork disc brooch, circular and flat, with a plain edge. The brooch is decorated with four pointed-oval holes defining a cruciform shape, with a small punched ring-and-dot in the centre and on each expanded arm. The rectangular hinge and catchplate survive on the back of the brooch, but the pin is missing. Hattatt (2000) illustrates a flat disc brooch with a cruciform shape alternating with lentoid shapes around a central circle or hub, which he classifies as a Wheel brooch, on page 347, fig.206, no.1137, which is dated from the 2nd century AD. This brooch i…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E29EC2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Base silver or billon South Western uninscribed stater of the Durotriges tribe of Dorset and Somerset, ABC 2157, BMC 2550. Van Arsdell refers to this Abstract type as one of the final silver or billon coinages on page 294, no.1235-1, and dates it from 58-45 BC.
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3557F
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead spindle whorl, circular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile and section, with a neat circular hole that is 8.4 mm in diameter. Both surfaces are pitted with circular indentations that average about 1 mm in diameter. These are seen locally on ceramic spindle whorls but lead whorls are not normally decorated in Cornwall, but this find is from Dorset and was found with other Roman artefacts. Experimental work with spindle whorls show that flat and symmetrical examples like this work best for spinning and holding the wool. Bishop (1996) illustrates a flat and pitted lead s…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3665F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman T-shaped hinged brooch with an enamelled stud on the bow. The stud consists of two circular cells, one within the other, with the central cell still retaining the darker remains of some red enamel and the outer cell retaining some fragments of brighter red enamel. The wings are damaged at each end, revealing the copper alloy spindle within, but the pin and hinge that wound around the spindle, in the aperture between the wings on the back of the brooch, are both missing. There are four incised triangles on the head, two on either side of a central band of chevr…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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Record ID: CORN-F3A44F
Object type: SEAL BOX
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Roman seal box lid, lozenge-shaped in plan with cross-hatching of twenty-five lozenge-shaped cells for enamel. Some light blue-green enamel survives in a few of the cells. The four corners of the lozenge shape have knops projecting from them which are now worn. These knops would have originally fitted into notches in the base half of the seal box. The sides of this lid survive, and are at right angles to the lid. Similar lozenge-shaped seal box lids have been discovered in Sutton, Suffolk (see SF-ADC726) and in Aldworth, Berkshire (see BERK-2698F3). Bishop (199…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Thursday 28th June 2018
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Record ID: CORN-F3B498
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy hooked mount with a bifid terminal at one end and an incurving hook at the opposite end and a moulded rosette in the middle with a central extant iron rivet. Read (2001) illustrates a similar hooked mount with a moulded rosette on the central plate, that was used for suspending a sword scabbard, on page 42, fig.25, no.360, which is dated from the 17th century. Read (2008) illustrates a similar hooked suspension mount with a central riveted roundel which expands into an openwork terminal on page 232, no.828, which is dated from the 17th century and recorded in I…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2017
Last updated: Sunday 15th October 2017
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